9780321216106

0321216105

Your order must be $59 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.

Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks!Enroll Now

Customer ReviewsRead Reviews

Write a Review

List Price: $96.00

Marketplace

$1.09

More Prices

Summary

Introducing the reader to politics, Danziger's rich, comparative perspective illuminates how politics works in countries across the world. Politics and Knowledge; Political Beliefs; Political Actions; Influences on Beliefs and Actions; States and Nations; Political Institutions; Political Economy; Politics and Knowledge; Change and Political Development; Political Violence; Politics Between States; The More Developed Countries; The Developing Countries; How to Do Political Analysis. Anyone interested in understanding how government and politics works across the world.

Table of Contents

Boxed Features

xvi

Preface

xviii

To the Reader

xxiii

About the Author

xxiv

PART ONE On Knowing the Political World

Politics and Knowledge

3

(22)

On Politics

3

(1)

Types of Political Knowledge

4

(4)

Description

7

(1)

Explanation

8

(1)

Prescription

8

(1)

Sources of Political Knowledge

8

(5)

Authority

8

(4)

Personal Thought

12

(1)

Science

13

(1)

Political Science

13

(4)

Political ``Science''?

17

(3)

Criticisms of Political Science as a ``Science''

17

(3)

Political Science as a Means of Understanding the Political World

20

(1)

Where Is this Book Going?

20

(1)

Key Concepts

21

(1)

For Further Consideration

21

(1)

For Further Reading

22

(1)

On the Web

22

(3)

PART TWO Political Behavior

Political Beliefs

25

(26)

Individual Political Beliefs

25

(3)

Belief Systems

28

(3)

Belief Systems among Mass Publics

28

(2)

Belief Systems among Elites

30

(1)

Political Culture

31

(4)

National Character Studies

31

(1)

Survey Research

32

(3)

Political Ideology

35

(11)

Key Issues

35

(3)

Conservatism

38

(1)

Classical Liberalism

39

(1)

Socialism

40

(4)

Some Further Points about ``Isms''

44

(2)

Looking Ahead

46

(1)

Key Concepts

46

(1)

For Further Consideration

46

(1)

For Further Reading

47

(1)

On the Web

48

(3)

Political Actions

51

(28)

Individual Political Actions

52

(8)

Modes of Political Activity

52

(2)

Political Activists

54

(1)

Political Participation Studies

55

(5)

Group Political Actions

60

(1)

Political Interest Groups

61

(6)

Activities of Political Interest Groups

61

(3)

Constraints on a Group's Behavior

64

(1)

Types of Interest Groups

65

(2)

Political Parties

67

(4)

Activities of Political Parties

67

(4)

Doing Politics

71

(4)

Key Concepts

75

(1)

For Further Consideration

75

(1)

For Further Reading

75

(2)

On the Web

77

(2)

Influences on Beliefs and Actions

79

(30)

The Environment

80

(2)

Agents of Political Socialization

82

(11)

The Family

83

(1)

The Schools

84

(2)

Peer Groups

86

(2)

The Media and Culture

88

(4)

Events

92

(1)

Personal Characteristics

93

(5)

Political ``Personality''

98

(5)

Personality

99

(3)

Human Nature

102

(1)

Concluding Observations

103

(1)

Key Concepts

103

(2)

For Further Consideration

105

(1)

For Further Reading

105

(1)

On the Web

106

(3)

PART THREE Political Systems

States and Nations

109

(28)

The State

109

(7)

A Legal Definition

110

(3)

A Structural-Functional Definition

113

(1)

The Domain of State Action

114

(2)

The Nation

116

(4)

The Political System

120

(12)

Systems in General

120

(1)

The Political System Defined

121

(3)

Conceptualization of the Political System

124

(4)

System Persistence

128

(1)

The Utility of the Political Systems Approach

129

(3)

Three Major Concepts: A Reprise

132

(1)

Key Concepts

132

(1)

For Further Consideration

132

(1)

For Further Reading

133

(1)

On the Web

134

(3)

Political Institutions I: Structures

137

(26)

The Legislature

138

(8)

Roles of the Legislature

138

(3)

Structural Arrangements

141

(1)

The Decline of Legislatures

142

(4)

Executives

146

(4)

Roles of Executives

146

(1)

Structural Arrangements

147

(3)

The Age of the Executive?

150

(1)

The Administration

150

(3)

Bureaucracy as One Form of Administration

150

(1)

Administrative Functions and Power

151

(2)

The Judiciary

153

(4)

Aspects of Adjudication

154

(1)

Judicial Structures

155

(2)

Concluding Observations

157

(1)

Key Concepts

158

(1)

For Further Consideration

158

(1)

For Further Reading

159

(1)

On the Web

160

(3)

Political Institutions II: Institutional Arrangements

163

(36)

Broad Taxonomies

164

(1)

Democracies and Nondemocracies

164

(12)

Defining Democracy

166

(5)

Defining Nondemocracies

171

(2)

A Democracy--Nondemocracy Continuum

173

(3)

Constitutional and Nonconstitutional Regimes

176

(4)

Constitutions

176

(2)

Constitutional Regimes

178

(1)

Nonconstitutional Regimes

179

(1)

Areal Distribution of Power

180

(2)

Unitary State

180

(1)

Federation

180

(1)

Confederation

181

(1)

Forms of Executive-Legislative Relations

182

(7)

Presidential Government

183

(1)

Parliamentary (Cabinet) Government

184

(1)

Hybrid Systems

185

(2)

Council Systems

187

(1)

Assembly Systems

188

(1)

Which Form Is Optimal?

188

(1)

Political Party Systems

189

(5)

Two-Party Systems

189

(1)

Multiparty Systems

189

(3)

Dominant-Party Systems

192

(1)

One-Party Systems

193

(1)

No-Party Systems

193

(1)

Classification and Clarity

194

(1)

Key Concepts

195

(1)

For Further Consideration

195

(1)

For Further Reading

195

(1)

On the Web

196

(3)

Political Economy

199

(26)

Politics and Economics

199

(1)

A Political-Economic Framework

200

(12)

Factors, Firms, and Households/Consumers

200

(2)

Getting and Spending

202

(2)

The State (and the World) Join In

204

(4)

Two Ideal-Type Political Economies

208

(1)

The Market Economy: Total Private Control

208

(3)

The Command Economy: Total State Control

211

(1)

Key Problems for Each Ideal-Type Political Economy

212

(4)

Market Economy

212

(2)

Command Economy

214

(1)

The Mixed Economy

215

(1)

Politics Plus Political Economy: The Other ``Isms''

216

(4)

The Three ``Isms''

216

(2)

The Real World

218

(2)

Concluding Observations

220

(1)

Key Concepts

221

(1)

For Further Consideration

222

(1)

For Further Reading

222

(1)

On the Web

223

(2)

PART FOUR Political Processes

Politics as a Value Allocation Process

225

(20)

The Elite Approach

226

(4)

Key Concepts

226

(1)

Major Theorists

226

(2)

The Value Allocation Process

228

(1)

The Prevalence of Elite-Based Political Systems

228

(2)

The Class Approach

230

(4)

The Group Approach

234

(4)

The Three Approaches Compared

238

(3)

Which Approach Is Correct?

238

(2)

Essential Similarities and Differences

240

(1)

Key Concepts

241

(1)

For Further Consideration

241

(1)

For Further Reading

242

(1)

On the Web

243

(2)

Change and Political Development

245

(30)

Change

246

(1)

Development

247

(14)

Characteristics of ``More Developed'' Social Systems

247

(1)

The Process of Development

248

(6)

The Dynamics of Economic Development

254

(7)

Political Development

261

(7)

Characteristics of Political Development

261

(1)

The Process of Political Development

262

(1)

Political Development as Democratization

263

(4)

Political Institutionalization and Political Decay

267

(1)

Achieving Political Development

268

(1)

World of Changes

269

(2)

Key Concepts

271

(1)

For Further Consideration

271

(1)

For Further Reading

272

(1)

On the Web

273

(2)

Politics Across Borders

275

(32)

The Goals of States

276

(3)

Realist and Idealist Perspectives on the State's ``Motives''

276

(1)

Major Goals

277

(2)

Mechanisms of Cooperation Between States

279

(11)

Diplomacy and Interstate Agreements

279

(3)

International Law

282

(2)

International Organizations

284

(6)

Competition Among States

290

(12)

Balance of Power

290

(2)

Balance of Terror

292

(1)

Domination and Dependence

293

(5)

Globalization?

298

(2)

Competition in the Globalized, Post--Cold War World

300

(2)

Key Concepts

302

(1)

For Further Consideration

302

(1)

For Further Reading

303

(1)

On the Web

304

(3)

Political Violence

307

(36)

Violence

308

(1)

Political Society

309

(1)

Types of Political Violence

309

(26)

State Violence against Individuals or Groups

309

(3)

Individual Violence against an Individual

312

(1)

Group Violence against an Individual

312

(5)

Group Violence against a Group

317

(1)

Individual or Group Violence against the State

318

(9)

Use of Force between States

327

(1)

War

328

(4)

What Causes War?

332

(3)

Evaluating Political Violence: Means and Ends

335

(2)

Key Concepts

337

(1)

For Further Consideration

338

(1)

For Further Reading

338

(2)

On the Web

340

(3)

PART FIVE Politics among States

The Developed Countries

343

(36)

An Introduction to the Next Three Chapters: Grouping the States in the Contemporary World